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Like many people’s houses, the vents on my roof are metal rather than plastic. I’m talking about the vents that over the kitchen and bathroom fans. Well, apparently, the neighborhood woodpeckers have worked out a telegraph system using these. After I got outside I found I’m not the only one that had a woodpecker on his roof this morning. As you can imagine, the sound of the pecking echos through the vent’s pipe and in to the house. It’s incredibly loud and short, and sounds like a high-speed version of that pipe pinging sound that happens in some houses.

I guess it makes a good alarm clock, if they do it at 6:30A every morning, but I sure didn’t need it after last night.

• $20 goes a long ways at Gameworks, I think. I spent hours wandering around, playing the odd game here and there, and only used half my card.
• Not all racing game steering wheels are centered — enjoy the struggle!
• Air hockey can be a very entertaining ‘spectator sport’ with the right players — bouncy, bouncy.
• The attractive blonde bartender at GW will keep pouring you fresh beers, and you don’t even have to ask.
• The Fox Sports Grill’s bar has several plasma screens and one front-projection screen TV. You can actually watch 5 commercials simultaneously!
• Gameworks is more of a “date” spot, so there are few single women. Fox Sports Grill (or whatever it is actually called) has many single women, but they roam in packs in order to intimidate (I assume). They are nice to look at, though.
• Downtown Seattle has a relatively small “core” of “late-night” (6pm+) entertainment venues. I assume the real action is in Pioneer Square and on Broadway, but those areas are also kind of small. The rest of the city is dead at night (old observation.)

UltraDNS employs some of the most relentless telemarketers ever. You tell them you’re not interested, they pull the “I don’t know why you wouldn’t be interested!” routine. You hang up, they call back in a few weeks. Yeah: I think I won’t be recommending anyone use them (not that my recommendation carries much weight).